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Most of the young conscripts who stand guard at every significant intersection in Warsaw attempt to be pleasant. They seem overjoyed when an occasional passer-by stops to chat as they stand next to their coal-fired braziers warming themselves against the freezing temperatures of one of Poland's coldest and snowiest Decembers in years. But they are easily angered when people mutter that "all the coal goes to the army...
...French are the most adulterous. The Danes, the most tolerant. The Italians-what other nation produces as many sobbing tenors?-are the most melancholy. And the British, perhaps because their green and pleasant land has not been the battlefield the Continent has been in living memory, are the most willing to go to war for Queen and country...
...souls, the season will be one of giving, not receiving. "I have received presents from Santa Claus only a long, long, time ago," says Czeslaw Milosz, the Polish poet who is giving this year's Norton Lectures. "I give presents now--mostly clothing for my family, something fancy or pleasant...
...produced 25 kittens. Though she proposed such dignified names as Princess and Napoleon for the kittens, her older brothers and sister insisted on calling all of them J. Fred Muggs, after NBC's famous chimpanzee. Sums up Dowd: "After years of covering public officials, I found cats a pleasant relief. Cats are every bit as narcissistic as politicians, but, happily, they are much less talkative...
Sganarelle, a collection of four Moliere farces presented by the American Repertory Theatre, takes just the right tack. So many painful versions of Moliere have been produced that it comes as a pleasant surprise to see one carried off with style and enthusiasm. Not that a little bit of age doesn't cling to the faded storylines. But it's not the plots that matter nearly so much as the mood, the atmosphere. The ART company infuses the comedies with much of the same spontaneity and lively froth that Moliere's own crew must have brought to them in 17th...